Featured Links
The following links will lead you to some favorite sites of dulcimer players and other lovers of Americana music.
Dulcimer Players News is a quarterly magazine for both mountain and hammered dulcimer players. It's filled with instruction, interviews, and articles for and about dulcimer enthusiasts, and comes with Tab and a CD of instructional materials and songs.
Woodsongs broadcasts out of Lexington, Ky, and their tagline, "You don't have to be famous, you just have to be good" means that show guests provide you with some terrific entertainment. Click here to jump to the 2005 program starring David Schnaufer and Butch Baldassari. (This episode is also on our home page under "Listen and Watch"/podcasts.)
Fiddle & Pick is a must-visit if you're into old-time music. Located right near Nashville in Peagram, F & P is a music store, music school, site for crazy fun jamming, and host of a variety of old=time music festivals. Gretchen and Tim, the owners, make everyone feel right at home. The first and third Tuesday nights are jam nights, but see their site because there are more; go, and you'll find yourself in a group of musicians, none of whom play with a single piece of paper. They welcome everyone to either play or just enjoy the music. Well worth a night out!
A wonderful Dulcimer Blog by “Strumelia”, the webmaster of the Friends of the Mountain Dulcimer website. She provides a wonderland of dulcimer history and music. Enjoy your visit, and follow her @Strumelia on Twitter.
Ever wonder if there is a John Stenson #1? You'll find it here. The Sessions site presents the history of folk songs from around the world. Includes events, recordings, discussion forums, and so on.
The Hearts of the Dulcimer Podcast explores the mountain dulcimer's past, present, and future.
Kentucky Music Week is a yearly festival in Bardstown, Kentucky that offers a full five days of instruction in a wide variety of traditional arts including all levels of fretted dulcimer and hammered dulcimer, classes in ukulele, guitar, banjo, fiddle, autoharp, penny whistle, vocal classes, old-time craft classes, and much, much more. Over 150 class choices are offered this year with something for everyone!
Folk tune finder is a search engine for folk tunes. It trawls the web for tunes in ABC notation format. It's a search engine and music research tool. Got a tune stuck in your head and you can't think of the name? Click the button below and you just might find 135 versions of it.
The Nashville Old-Time String Band Association is dedicated to sharing and promoting old-time music everywhere, but particularly throughout Middle Tennessee.
Membership in NOTSBA is open to anyone who has a love for old-time music, but membership is not required to attend our events. Musicians of all ages and abilities are welcome. NOTSBA members love to jam, both in their homes and in various public venues. Click the button below to find out more information
Western North Carolina Dulcimer Collective. A group of hammered and mountain dulcimer players from Asheville, NC. They provide an ample list of old time music tabs.
Friends of the Mountain Dulcimer is a something-for-everyone website similar to Everything Dulcimer. Ask questions, post a video, look up festivals, participate in their discussion forum. Join (it’s free!) to see the entire website and all it has to offer beginners to advanced players and everyone in between.
Dulcimer U at Western Carolina University offers a week-long educational experience that provides students with the absolute best educational experience available for the mountain dulcimer. Skill building will continue to be at the core of our programs, but we’ll also be focusing on music theory, techniques, history and even technology applications for the dulcimer. Universities are known for advancing the body of knowledge in a particular field, so we’ll also be focusing on innovation and what the future holds for this versatile instrument.
The P-J has a rich history you can read about on site, and if you love to jam you may want to contact Susie Coleman and Kirk Pickering to inquire about visiting this invitation-only group. PegramJam.com is an audio tune reference. Besides making practice tunes available for their jam members--currently they have an audio library of over 450 old time tune--they felt that it would be in the spirit of traditional music to open up their collection up to acoustic music teachers and students everywhere. This website could be considered a modern delivery method of an ancient and respected tradition ... the passing on of tunes from one musician to another. A site well worth exploring!